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28 March 2022
With much surprise to both the EUIPO and most of the legal IP community, the General Court (GC) in a judgment of 16 March 2022 in case Nowhere v. EUIPO holds that UK passing off rights...
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02 November 2020
We are creeping ever closer to the end of the Brexit Transition Period, which expires on 31 December 2020. After this point, whether the UK leaves with a deal or not, EUTMs will cease to...
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15 September 2020
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has ruled on the interpretation of the concept “part of the goods and services” referred to in Article 42(2) of Regulation No 207/2009 in...
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21 July 2020
The UK Government has published the Draft Intellectual Property (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (the "SI"). The SI amends various statutory instruments enacted in...
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18 December 2019
In a recent decision the General Court (GC) confirmed that an EU trademark application containing the word CANNABIS is against public policy or accepted principles of morality and therefore ...
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25 July 2018
In the context of the KitKat shape mark saga, in Société des produits Nestlé SA v Mondelez UK Holdings & Services Ltd and another (Joined Cases C-84/17 P, C-85/17 P ...
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24 July 2018
In the context of the KitKat shape mark saga, in Société des produits Nestlé SA v Mondelez UK Holdings & Services Ltd and another (Joined Cases C-84/17 P, C-85/17 P ...
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5 March 2018
The General Court has once again upheld adidas’ oppositions against two copycat applications for two stripes positioned on a shoe. The two decisions issued on 1 March 2018 (in Cases T-...
Hogan Lovells Publications
Summer 2014
Our IP lawyers across the globe have once again put together the hot topics from the legal world which impact not only on our clients' businesses but reflect the overall development in the...
